First ImpressionThe little Robot's avatar going around the threads had caught my eye for a while, leaving me wondering what that was all about. What with the neon green background behind it, my eyes were forcefully directed to the picture of a round, metal head... with a red bandana, and what looked like to be the cut-off shoulders of the character under its head. So I took a look.

ArtworkSimple, cute and Paper Mario-like. As I read through the first few pages I learn that what I thought were shoulders, are actually Robot's feet, as mostly everyone else in the comic is a round circle with tiny feet. An interesting choice of style. Robot the Pirate's artwork isn't meant to be appreciated like the artwork in mainstream comics, but that's only because the artwork itself is being used a basic means of telling a story. And from what I see, it's done well and with heart.

StoryA stubby, little pig scientist with a pimpin' pink hat and a swirly moustache creates a robot with the will to become an evil pirate, but the second it's thrown off the ship onto its supposedly-evil adventure, the scientist realizes he had forgotten to attach to its creation, the most important element of his plan - a little red colored square with the word "evil" printed on it. And that's how they hook ya!

Final ImpressionRobot the Pirate is off to become the person he wants to be... just not the way his creator would like him to. Sound familiar? I think a lot of kids can relate to this idea and I believe that's what makes Robot the Pirate a good, funny read for everyone. Congrats!

Since a spambot bumped this topic back up I thought I'd suggest we do this again some time in May (like last year), I know that traditionally it happens earlier but I'd selfishly prefer the extra weeks to get some stuff done.

Then y'all can tear my comics to pieces again and crush all my dreams .

Deviantart~tumblr"Your service is to the story and to the characters. Fuck the audience and fuck your own whims." - Yeahduff

Wow, I am so bummed that this isn't an actual poster. I got really excited.

I know! I was gonna ask him about that Death Ray thingie he supposedly fired up in Tungesha (sp?) in 1906!. *sighs*

Well I don't buy much into the whole Wardencyffe being a deathray tower-- thats just silly. It wasn't intended for that function and operated very independently from the turbine, electrostatic, and ray generator aspects of his deathray designs. I mean its ten years prior to Telsa mentioning any deathray idea at all. I like natural H-bomb myself. personally I don't think Tesla had a working variant, he did after all take 50k from the USSR, and ran with the money, and he was working off ideas that were merely guess work at the time. fringe atomic particles and that.

<KittyKatBlack> You look deranged. But I mean that in the nicest way possible. ^_^;

Phact0rri wrote:Well I don't buy much into the whole Wardencyffe being a deathray tower-- thats just silly. It wasn't intended for that function and operated very independently from the turbine, electrostatic, and ray generator aspects of his deathray designs. I mean its ten years prior to Telsa mentioning any deathray idea at all. I like natural H-bomb myself. personally I don't think Tesla had a working variant, he did after all take 50k from the USSR, and ran with the money, and he was working off ideas that were merely guess work at the time. fringe atomic particles and that.

I dunno. The more I read about the bloke, the more of a insane genius he becomes. Since he generally worked from the blueprints in his head, and if he destoyed the plans and machine as the story goes, we may never know. If Edison hadn't screwed him over and forced Tesla to be a free lancer inventor, who knows what kind of technology we'd have today!

"I've come to accept a lot of what's wrong with this world, and there's not much I can do about it." - Johnny "Rotten" Lydon

Phact0rri wrote:Well I don't buy much into the whole Wardencyffe being a deathray tower-- thats just silly. It wasn't intended for that function and operated very independently from the turbine, electrostatic, and ray generator aspects of his deathray designs. I mean its ten years prior to Telsa mentioning any deathray idea at all. I like natural H-bomb myself. personally I don't think Tesla had a working variant, he did after all take 50k from the USSR, and ran with the money, and he was working off ideas that were merely guess work at the time. fringe atomic particles and that.

I'm sick of conspiracy-theory-like stories about Tesla. The fact is that people who are liberally spreading those theories around usually can't name two actual working inventions of his. Guy wasn't even nearly such recluse and introvert that legend makes him out to be - he was actually quite a showman.